LONDON’S BUILDINGS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 13 March 1934, Page 7

LONDON’S BUILDINGS.

TALL STRUCTURES CRITICISED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 11. The tendency to erect higher buildings in London is the subject of criticism in the report of the Royal Fine Art Commission which, by Royal Warrant of last year, was empowered to call atention to any project or development which, in the opinion of the commisison, might appear to affect amenities of a national or public character. The commission now states that the effect of some of these tall buildings upon other places of national and historic interest has in many cases been detrimental. In particular it refers to buildings recently erected in the neighbourhood of St. Paul’s Cathedral, distinct views of which have been disastrously blocked by the newly-erected structures.

The maximum height of buildings authorised in Londoni has recently been increased to 100 feet. The commission points out that the increase in height is a concession of which the suggested that any such concession money value is often great, and it is suggested that any such concession should be accompanied by some advantage to the public of light, air, or of an amenity by surrendering frontage for road widening or by setting back faces of buildings in order to provide a wider angle of light.